https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-quot-create-quot-an-app-through-the-RESTAPI/m-p/180727#M36236 <P>You can create an app through the Web UI, so you can also create it through the REST API: <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.1.3/RESTAPI/RESTapps#POST_apps.2Flocal">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.1.3/RESTAPI/RESTapps#POST_apps.2Flocal</A></P> Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:39:38 GMT martin_mueller 2014-08-13T15:39:38Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-quot-create-quot-an-app-through-the-RESTAPI/m-p/180726#M36235 <P>I like to keep my index configurations for indexers modular, keeping groups of indexes for a set purpose under their own app. I am trying to add a new index for a new group using the restapi, but unsurprisingly it is complaining that the app does not exist.</P> <PRE><CODE>curl -k -u admin:changeme <A href="https://127.0.0.1:8089/servicesNS/admin/linux_indexes_blah/data/indexes" target="test_blank">https://127.0.0.1:8089/servicesNS/admin/linux_indexes_blah/data/indexes</A> -d name=linux_appservers_blah &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;response&gt; &lt;messages&gt; &lt;msg type="ERROR"&gt;Application does not exist: linux_appservers_amelco&lt;/msg&gt; &lt;/messages&gt; &lt;/response&gt; </CODE></PRE> <P>Expecting the answer "no", but is there a quick way to initialise a skeletal app configuration?</P> Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:25:02 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-quot-create-quot-an-app-through-the-RESTAPI/m-p/180726#M36235 grijhwani 2014-08-13T15:25:02Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-quot-create-quot-an-app-through-the-RESTAPI/m-p/180727#M36236 <P>You can create an app through the Web UI, so you can also create it through the REST API: <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.1.3/RESTAPI/RESTapps#POST_apps.2Flocal">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.1.3/RESTAPI/RESTapps#POST_apps.2Flocal</A></P> Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:39:38 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-quot-create-quot-an-app-through-the-RESTAPI/m-p/180727#M36236 martin_mueller 2014-08-13T15:39:38Z